overweakadj.

a1425 Dialogue Reason & Adversity (Cambr.) (1968) 33 Þe los of his goodes were ouer weyk for to opin his lippes folily to grucche.

a1464 J. Capgrave Abbreuiacion of Cron. (Cambr. Gg.4.12) (1983) 203 Her power was ouyr weyk.

c1475 Gregory's Chron. in J. Gairdner Hist. Coll. Citizen London (1876) 205 The Duke of Yorke lete make a grete depe dyche and fortefyde it with gonnys, cartys, and stakys, but hys party was ovye weke.

1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique Prol. Though this Goliah appered so strong, that .x. Davides were not able, to stande in his hande: yet .x. Goliaths were all over weake for David alone.

a1592 R. Greene Comicall Hist. Alphonsus (1599) v. l. 68 Haue you found mine arme of such a force, As that you thinke your bodie ouerweake For to withstand the furie of my blowes?

1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. ix. §1. 152 The soft weapons of paternall I. perswasions..became in all over-weak, either to resist the first inclination of euill, or after (when it became habituall) to constraine it.

1675 B. Keach Grand Impostor Discovered 282 The Light cannot discern; 'tis over-weak.

1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge xix. 40 Warm brandy-and-water not over-weak.

a1887 J. G. Saxe Drinking Song in Poet. Wks. (1889) 86 No, indeed; it was not Claret (That were something overweak).

1968 Jrnl. Philos. 65 275 It has been accused of both overstrong and overweak ontic and epistemic commitment.

1998 Independent (Nexis) 29 Jan. 21 The prospect of feckless Italians joining may give Dutch and German officials palpitations about an overweak euro.